Broadband satellite access for interactive multimedia services

Authors:
Tho Le-Ngoc;Tallal Elshabrawy
Affiliations:
Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 514 398 5252/ Fax: +1 514 398 4470/ E-mail: tho@ece.mcgill.ca;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, 3480 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7
Venue:
Space Communications
Year:
2001

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigated the feasibility of providing two-way broadband access for residential interactive multimedia services such as video-on-demand, news on demand, home shopping or webcasting over multibeam satellite systems. We propose new air-interface protocols and terminal structures for broadband access with special emphasis on the MAC (Medium Access Control) sub-layer. Functional blocks of the various elements of the broadband satellite access system are presented.